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PHOTO SAFARI
Below is a Photo Safari I conducted to determine which composition of photographs is the most successful and abstract. Usually, I just freely took various angles of pictures of what I wanted to take; this time, it took a lot of time to make the same composition perfectly because I had to take an image according to the set design angle.
Formal Elements
Paul Strand, Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut’
Perhaps the photographer who took this picture was interested in the shadow on the object and took the picture. It also seems to have been taken around a disk object with a round curved line opposite to the rough surface of the object felt through the photograph. The V-shaped pattern formed as the light passes through the bent wall also seems to have been noted.
If I were the photographer, I would name the photograph ‘good and evil.’ The dark shadow side seems to mean the evil mind of humans, and the bright side of light indicates the good heart of humans. It seems to express human ambivalence by contrasting the bright and dark sides.
pd5-lamp-summative
Firstly, I decided to look up some examples of Chinese design patterns, and Chinese lamps. I looked through the images I want to trace and decided which to trace， which to leave, and which to add bridges. I always loved Chinese patterns, and I think it would look gorgeous if I made a Chinese lantern. I learned how to work fusion, editing them again and again to create the final product.
Once I found out what I want to trace for my project, I started to learn everything about fusion. The spline and trim tools come in most use throughout my designing process. There are lot of difficulties in the designing progress: Firstly, I am very slow with using the spline tool, making it very difficult to sketch out the lines. The most irritating problem of all is that I need to delete all the copied layers on top of the sketch. A super cool thing that really helped me was the circular pattern tool, it saved me a lot of time.
Looking up designs online
learning how to use the trim tool
Adding bridges to the design
Delete the copied layers
Finishing up on lightburn
For some tips to the incoming student: Stay calm with fusion, sometimes it is really annoying to do the editing to make your design look better. If I did this, I won’t smack my computer and sleep at 2’o clock. If I would, individually, chose some cool patterns instead of the crane design if could go back and do the class over.
I really challenged myself because I did the most complicated design in the class and spent the most time working on it. It would be better if maybe the teacher shows the process of making the design with a short video so the students can know what to do next. It would be better if we had more time and more classes.
Michelle and Julie’s Bread utensil design
Me and Julie Fang designed a food utensil (a metal clip) for eating Chinese bread/ Chinese Burger. During our brainstorming part, we came up with 3 Ideas. I came up with 2 and my partner came up with 1. My first idea was inspired by my daily life: I’ve seen many people eating pasta and spread the sauce everywhere, and it is not very civilised, also twirling the spaghetti with the spoon and fork is too problematic. I think we can design a spoon with automatic twirler that can design a spoon with automatic twirler that twills the spaghetti. Another design I made was based on my grandpa, who is a Parkinson patient, because their hands shake without control, so it is hard to put food in their mouth. I designed a type of spoon that will enable a place will always stay up even though you shake your hands. My partner’s idea was also inspired in daily life. She realised that when she eats Chinese sandwich/burger, the meat and vegetable will slip out of the bread. She designed a clip that will clip everything together. At the end, we chose my partner’s idea because it is the most useful, and the one that will be most successful at making.
While designing our utensil, we receive feedback from our classmates. Most of my feedback from the students for the brainstorm and sketch are not very friendly, therefore we did not use it. For example, one of our feedback based on one of our drawings said “Nice boat”. This feedback cannot be applied firstly because it is an unkind discrimination to the drawing even though the drawing is quite easy to be misunderstood. Instead, the student could write this comment as a wish saying “It would be easier to understand if you sketched out a clearer drawing or provided a clearer idea “Secondly, this feedback cannot be applied because it does not clearly point out what we did appropriately and what is our insufficient. On the other hand, we noticed that our idea might be a bit immature, causing the inaccuracy within our sketches.
The strength of our utensil is that the material is very simple, and cheap to buy. This utensil is a great heat insulation, so we can still hold the bread when it is very hot. Also, this utensil’s main goal is to prevent the vegetable and meat from falling However, our utensil’s weakness is that some people may not face this problem, therefore some customers might not purchase this utensil.